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I have been working on some new morphable props to post, (in this particular case a horn,) but want to make sure I'm using the preferred layout first. I only have Poser3 at the moment, and it seems to mess up the uv and texture groups if I just add it to the Props section. So instead, I added a dmesh directory to the Geometries folder, and manually updated the Prop object pp2 to point to the real OBJ file. So now it can recognize the different texture areas, but I just wanted to make sure that was a suitable thing to do. Plus a litle side question. Is there no way to have Poser scale an object using a negative value in order to mirror it for the other horn? Or do I actually need to include two horns, one for each side of the head? And if I do that, should they then be different Prop objects since otherwise they rotate/scale in tandem? Or are these just things from Poser3 and are no longer relevant for the 4+ versions? (If I haven't made my self clear here, the first draft of the Prop is on the site already. I'd just prefer not to tell anyone that until I'm sure of this layout question :) ) Bruce Home of DMesh http://meshtools3d.bizland.com/

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You may need to install the Poser3.01 update. It allows props to be imported with Materials intact. http://www.curiouslabs.com/updates/Win/poser301.zip Do a fresh install of Poser3 from the CD, then apply the update for best results. An OBJ and .PP2 with an external call to the geometries folders is fine, but you'll need two horns in separate files. Poser doesn't have an intentional mirroring function. Poser4 does mirror some .3ds files by error on import ;-) -Jeff H. PS: www.curiouslabs.com is now offering a $99.00 upgrade to Poser4.3 for Poser 1, 2, and 3.

Ah, thanks so much. I'll give that a try plus add the second horn. Saw the update offer but unfortunately my wife said "NO MORE TOYS RIGHT NOW!" and the dish ran away with the credit card... :) Hopefully not too long though, especially with the ProPack coming soon.

heyas; make each horn a separate prop, in case people need to move them around (for different width heads and such.) i think you can wrangle the pp2 file in poser 3 to add both props as one library file. use the cr2editor to add one horn to the other's file. (make sure they have differnt names.) not sure this will work, though. :) and it looks pretty cool :) oh, when you mirror it, make sure the normals are still facing 'out'. in some applications they get flipped inside out when you mirror stuff.

Glad you like it. Was going to try shoe-horning 2 props into the same pp2, but got side-tracked trying to make cr2's read from more than one obj (but that's another topic in the PoserTech section :) ) Will watch for the normals and see if I can get it posted over the weekend. Better at least do some actual work once in a while :) Thanks again for the suggestions Bruce